Spring 2024 Newsletter
Work & Mother | Parspec | Welcoming Lucas If you’re receiving this newsletter, you’ve probably heard us reference the Building Ventures mission at least once: We’re all vocal about working to...
View ArticleOur Investment in Work & Mother
We are thrilled to announce our investment in Work & Mother, a full-service mother’s room amenity and companion application for commercial office buildings. Founder & CEO Abbey Donnell...
View ArticleA Better Built World: Data-Driven Design
Our mission here at Building Ventures is to help create a better built world. But what does a better built world like? What are the essential elements or defining processes? Most importantly, what...
View ArticleOur Investment in SmartPM
“There is a moment of reckoning in every project when the schedule starts to be at risk, SmartPM objectively and eerily accurately sounds the alarm and then helps us understand what our team can do to...
View ArticleConstructing a Better Built World
Recently, I was in a meeting where I heard a builder casually proclaim that software isn’t going to bend the cost curve or materially improve how we build. As someone whose career has been focused on...
View ArticleOur Latest Investment in Clearstory
Exactly one year ago, we shared our follow-on investment in Clearstory, the construction industry’s only change order management platform. We are excited to do that once again today as Clearstory is...
View ArticleLeveraging AI for Better Building
Our mission here at Building Ventures is to help create a better built world. But what does a better built world like? What are the essential elements or defining processes? Most importantly, what...
View ArticleEnsuring Our Built World Helps Us Thrive
Our mission here at Building Ventures is to help create a better built world. But what does a better built world look like? What are the essential elements or defining processes? Most importantly,...
View ArticleAdoption of AI in the Construction Industry: The Venture Perspective
The following article is adapted from a talk developed for the “Adoption of AI in Construction” panel hosted by Parspec at WeWork for San Francisco Tech Week on 10/8/24. Mayra Soto at the AI Adoption...
View ArticleAnnouncing Jim Whalen as Building Ventures Innovator 2024
At the end of October, our team gathered in New York City with the Building Ventures Innovators Network, the BVIN, for our annual fall summit. Our audience—more than a hundred building industry...
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